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When we think about changes in music, our minds wander to the artists who make it. Images of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones<\/a> and Joni Mitchell are conjured as we attest every development within the art form towards its contributors, but this isn\u2019t always the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n Granted, musicians are incredibly important when it comes to\u2026 well\u2026 music, that\u2019s a given. But the idea that the buck starts and stops with them is misguided. There are plenty of different factors which contribute towards the constantly changing tides in music. These include the people who make it, but additionally those who record it, produce, promote it, market it, and, of course, consume it.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Beatles were huge, one of the most influential bands in history, but they wouldn\u2019t have made such an impact had they not been managed and marketed in the way they were. They laid a blueprint for other bands to follow, which they did, which in turn gave the world The Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five and The Who. <\/p>\n Even a lot of songs which are considered classics probably wouldn\u2019t have been written were it not for outside interference. Black Sabbath are often credited with being the band who pioneered the sound of heavy metal, and one of their biggest songs that helped them do that was \u2018Paranoid<\/a>\u2019, but that probably wouldn\u2019t have even been written were it not for their label demanding a radio-friendly two-minute single.\u00a0<\/p>\n